XDMCP Core 3

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Thu Jan 20 17:27:34 UTC 2005


tor, 20.01.2005 kl. 12.20 skrev Jonathan Andrews:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:14, Mark McLoughlin wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:43 +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> > > Is XDMCP, remote X bust in core 3 ?
> > 
> > 	I was using it not so long ago and it was working fine.
> > 
> > > I've tried the gui configuration for tool gdm. The machine has no
> > > firewall enabled - all I get the "gdm_child_action: Aborting display
> > > jonspc:1" in the log ?
> > 
> > 	I'm suprised that's the only message you get - a glance at the code
> > suggests if you're getting this error message (which is from the master)
> > you should be getting another message from the slave.
> If found my problem, its a name resolver issue (thank you Mr Cox :-D )
> I think email is on a go-slow, please look back if you have time.
> 
> Some comments on this and a few other things
> 
> 1) gdm doesn't have a process itself, it runs from init - but when gdm
> is started it seems to undergo a name change to "gdm-binary" without
> being owned by gdm or anything called gdm. As a result its not possible
> to cleanly restart gdm ? ie no "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". Am I missing
> something here or this a bit naff ? 
> 

it is. But you have the tools gdm-restart etc. (just type gdm*tabtab*
and you'l find 'em

> 2) If the reverse name doesn't resolve the only entry in the log with
> debugging off is :
> Jan 20 10:57:19 localhost gdm[7118]: gdm_child_action: Aborting display
> jonspc:1
> 
> 
> 3) Speaking of logs, this is only a machine for "play" - so if its not
> been owned, and the following is normal, then the log should have
> something less pant wetting than this - something above or below
> explaining what process is doing this and/or why would be nice. 
> 
> Jan 20 07:01:01  localhost crond(pam_unix)[6836]: session opened for
> user root by (uid=0)Jan 20 07:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6836]:
> session closed for user root
> Jan 20 07:01:01 localhost crond(pam_unix)[6836]: session closed for user
> root
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> 




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